Improvement in water-wheels



NTTED STATES PATENT Orrlon J OllN ERIKSON, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA,ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO NELSON OLESON, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-WHEELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 164,823, dated J une22, 1875; application tiled January 14, 1875.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN ERrKsoN, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, haveinvented certain new and `useful Improvements in Waten Wheels; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a partof this speciiication, in which p Figure l is a vertical longitudinalsection, showing the wheel with its operating devices as arranged andcombined when placed on top of the lume or water-pipe; and Fig. 2 isasimilar section, showing the wheel as arrangedwhen .placed upon oneside of the flume.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both thefigures.

The object of my invention is to provide a water-wheel that may be usedwith equal advantage and efficiency, and without derangement of any ofits operating parts, upon the top or side of the water-carrying ume,according' to local conditions and the option of the purchaser, and inwhich the water can be readily shut off or let on. It consists in thecombination of devices, as hereinafter described and claimed. i

In the drawings, A represents a ilume or water-pipe, on the top or sideof which the wheel may be placed. c is the pipe, which supplies thewheel with water. The water passes through the pipe a into a skeletoncylinder, b, attached to said pipe, and from this cylinder passes intothe wheel. O is a sliding sleeve or jacket, placed below the cylinder b,and just enough larger to fit snugly over it. rlhis sleeve, when raised,lits snugly over the vcylinder b, shutting entirely oli' the supply of llar position, one end of the shaft g has its bearing in the bar h, whichis placed across the top of pipe a, and the opposite end in the bent armm; but when running in a horizontal position, the shaft g turns on apivot, a,

which is inserted in the bar h, the opposite end of the shaft beingsupported by the bent arm m.

Attached to the wheel W is a collar, o, and set-screw s, by which theshaft g is fastened in proper position to the wheel; and on the shaft isanother collar, t, and set-screw n.

By means of these two set-screws the shaft may be raised so as to turnon the pivot n, or lowered so as to turn in the bar h.

It will be observed, from the foregoing description, that the wheel W,with all its appurtenances, is placed entirely outside of the flume, nopart thereof projecting within the same; and, also, that the wheel maybeused with equal efficiency either in its horizontal or verticalposition, as local conditions mayV render most desirable, by simplyadjustingv the shaft g either on the pivot n and bent arm m,.or in thebar AL and bent arm m, which is easily done by the collars o t withtheir respective set-screws s o.

j It will also be observed that the shaft g does not, as is usually thecase in turbines and water-wheelsvwhere the supply of water y isregulated by a circular gate or sleeve, re-

` t and set-screw o, and all arranged exteriorl y 4 to the flume orwater-pipe A, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore setforth.

2. rEhe sleeve O, in combination with the arms c and c, bar d, and longlever-arm f, when arranged and operating exteriorly to the flume A,substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I` have hereunto set my hand.

JOHN ERIKSON.

Witnesses:

`Jar/ins G. SMITH, Lnwis MAIsTo.

